Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)

then a believing slave is to be set free.
And if he belongs to a people
with whom you have a treaty,
the blood-money is to be paid to his family
and a believing slave is to be set free.
He who cannot afford [to pay the blood-money],
must fast two successive months
as a penance from Allah,
and Allah is all-knowing, all-wise.
93 Should anyone kill a believer intentionally,
his requital shall be hell,
to remain in it [forever];
Allah shall be wrathful at him and curse him
and He shall prepare for him a great punishment.

94 O you who have faith!
When you issue forth in the way of Allah,
try to ascertain:
do not say to someone who offers you peace,
‘You are not a believer,’
seeking the transitory wares of the life of this world.
Yet with Allah are plenteous gains.
You too were such earlier,
but Allah did you a favour.
Therefore, do ascertain.
Allah is indeed well aware of what you do.
95 Not equal are those of the faithful who sit back
— excepting those who suffer from some disability —
and those who wage jihād in the way of Allah
with their possession and their persons.

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Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation, Islamic College for Advance Studies Press (ICAS), London (Distributed by The Centre for Translation of the Holy Qur’ān, Qom, Iran), Consulted online at “Quran Archive - Texts and Studies on the Quran” on 15 Jan. 2025: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=159